On June 7, Beijing time, in the third round of Group I of the European Group Stage of the World Preliminaries, a focus was staged, Norway hosted the traditional powerhouse Italy, and the game became one-sided, Norway scored an efficient goal, swept Italy 3-0, and won a big victory.
Italy is currently ranked ninth in the world, as a European powerhouse, but unfortunately has missed the World Cup for two consecutive years, Italy is eager to return to the World Cup in this World Preliminary Tournament, the first two rounds of byes, this round ushered in the World Preliminary Tournament debut and Norway competition, the opponent is 38th in the world, the number one killer is Haaland, this battle Italy will hit a good start!
After the start of the game, Norway went crazy in the first half, playing very efficiently on the counter-attack, constantly threatening the Italian goal, and in the 14th minute, Nousa sent a scalpel through the ball, and Sollot held the ball into the box to face the goalkeeper from a tight angle. In the 34th minute, the ball came from the back to the front, and Nousa broke away from the defense and burst into the net with a cold arrow. In the 42nd minute, Odegaard sent a precise scalpel pass, Haaland scrambled into the penalty area to get rid of the goalkeeper and scored a single goal, Norway scored three goals from four shots in the first half, and the efficiency was very high, while Italy's 0 shots threatened very little. In the second half, Italy's attack still did not change, and the substitution adjustment had no effect, but Norway lost a scoring opportunity, in the 67th minute, Odegaard took a tactical free kick and passed it to Sander Borg, who received the ball and shot a shot but unfortunately hit the neutral post, and missed the goal, and finally the game ended Italy lost 0-3 to Norway!
I have to say that this game is really surprising, Italy lost too badly, it is really unreasonable to be clean sheet by the opponent, the debut suffered a black start, completely suppressed by Norway, this is really not the performance that a strong team should have, and Norway ushered in three consecutive wins in the world preliminaries, and has a very good chance to enter the World Cup!
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